Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim read the following statement in a press conference he and Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV held at the Manila Peninsula Hotel:
Today, we address all decent Filipinos to announce that now is the time to end the sufferings and miseries inflicted upon us by the illegitimate Gloria Macapagal Arroyo government and start a new life, a new Philippines. The die is cast pursuant to our constitutional mandate as protector of the people and state.
And by these acts the officers and men of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police supported by the masses of our people and the various political forces give substance to the constitutional provisions which says the Philippines is a democratic and republican state.
Sovereign peace resides in the people and all government authority emanate from them. That we take the faithful steps of removing Mrs Arroyo from the presidency and undertake the formation of a new government.Mrs Arroyo had occupied the presidency under a questionable mandate publicly disputed by a vast majority of Filipinos. She stole the presidency from President Estrada through unconstitutional and deceitful means and later manipulated the results of the 2004 elections to perpetuate herself in power.
We have individually and collectively tried all means to resolve this legitimacy issue through the normal electoral, juidicial, and congressional processes but Mrs Arroyo used naked power through the issuance of Executive Order 464 and other executive proclamations and the sheer weight of numbers to paralyze the impeachment process procured at the people’s great expense to fustrate us at every turn.
After all these have failed our people tried to air their grievances in peaceful street assemblies. They thought they were exercising a combination of constitutional right which no official or agency of government may legally abridge but they were stopped and dispersed violently with cannons from firemen and truncheons from the police.
The abuses of our government continue the deliberate the deliberate refusal or failure of the dubious leaders to castigate and prosecute the people responsible for the scandalous Hello, Garci electoral cheating, the Joc-joc Bolante multi million peso fertilizer scam, Impsa bribery, the Jose Pidal and Jueteng scandals involving billions of public funds, the North Rail Project, scandal, the Venable contract scandal, the NBN scandal, the wholesale bribery of congressmen in Malacañang as well as the unabated and unresolved extrajudicial killings of citizens particularly journalists and members of the judiciary and the use of military and police officers for some unlawful mission.
Among others, these are clear proof of her failure for good and decent governance. There are numerous illegal and immoral activities and transactions conducted by these government with impunity that betray the citizens and the state of their pristine right to exist as a people with decency, dignity and integrity.
With all the avenues closed by the use of naked force, no other means remain but for the officers and men of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police to exercise their constitutional mandate and to take the side of the sovereign people against this illegitimate and unjust president.
We take due indulgence and apologize for any untoward disruptions attendant to fighting this righteous cause.
We are confident that the will of the sovereign people will prevail. The end of the corrupt and vicious government and its bogus leaders is long overdue.
We support the political and economic reforms that will be initiated by the new government regardless of the personal cause it may impose on each one of us.
We therefore call on our people and all the government around the world to give the constitutional rescue initiated by our patriotic brothers in the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police a chance to work.
To the task of organizing a new government and pursuing a program of total and no nonsense reform, we commit our full support.
We shall do whatever we can too to prevent any backsliding to the corruption and abuse of power of the immediate past and advance the cause of truth, freedom and justice, peace and progress for all Filipinos. God bless the Filipino people. Mabuhay ang Pilipinas.
ellen, my heart goes out to those men. if i could be with them i would have wanted to be. my prayers go out to them.
The die is cast. Oust Gloria Arroyo!
they should have marched directly to malakanyang.
they should have just heeded the advice of Mike Hanopol from one of his songs,
“Mabuti pa kung magtanim ka ng kamote. Makakatulong pa ito sa iyong sarili”
the economic gains are all gone. worse, pa-urong na naman ang ekonomiya. courtesy of trillanes. PWE!
ASIII:we should be thankful na back to zero na naman ang economy.anong economic gains ba ang sinasabi mo?meron ba?may naramdaman ka man lang ba?matutuwa kaming mga ofw kapag bumagsak na naman ang piso.sana nga bumalik na lang ulit sa 1dollar=60pesos gaya nang unang punta ko dito sa dubai.wala din namang nangyayari/ninanakaw lang ng mga salot sa malacanang.kailan ba naman sumulong ang economy natin?ayan at panay ang utang ni pandak.mabuti na lang at nareject ng world bank.may pasulong bang economy na di umunlad?may pasulong bang economy na lalong naghihirap at helpless ang taumbayan.common sense lang ASIII.kung meron ka.kung wala,magtanim ka na lang ng kamote.
ASIII: Anong economic gains ang sinasabi mo?!!Di mo ba nakikita at wala ng matinong kompanya sa atin. Patay na ang manufacturing industry natin. Asan na ang makers ng White Westinghouse, Goodyear at Firestone tires, etc., etc.? Ano ang kapalit, call centers? Ito ba ang economic gains na sinasabi mo? Pakiramdam ko nga below zero na tayo…hopeless for the meantime. Agriculture natin, ano na? Bagsak din. Exporters natin? Wala, malapit na ring bumigay dahil sa pekeng pagtaas ng piso. Mining industry, paper industry, steel industry wala…may nababalitaan ka bang gains kahit sa anong industries na mga ito? Bagsak ng lahat…puro imported na tayo ngayon, ultimonng toothpick. So ano na lang ang natitira…kaming mga OFW na lang, labor export na lang. Tapos lakas ng loob mong bumanat ng economic gains. Ang gains na sinansabi mo, siguro, e yung gains pabalik sa zero galing negative. Kaya kung pwe to Trillanes…mas malaking PWE para sa yo…Baka nga kahit kamote wala ng maipambili ang nakararaming tao dyan sa Pinas e…magtanim pa?
Kaya patuloy na nagogoyo ni Goya ang Pinas e dahil sa mga taong tulad mo na ang tingin sa growing poverty e economic gains…
Attn titser:
Paki tanong nga kung ano na ang ibig sabihin ng kabitsers este, kibitzer?
may dumudura pa dito sa sasakyan ni ellen, hindi nya alam naka wiper ang mga wind shield na sasakyan natin 🙂
“dura ka pa ng dura eh nakahiga ka naman, bumangon ka naman kasi… “
“we should be thankful na back to zero na naman ang economy”
oh yes! thanks to trillanes! lalo pang magbabanat ng buto ang mga OFW!
“Patay na ang manufacturing industry natin. Asan na ang makers ng White Westinghouse, Goodyear at Firestone tires, etc., etc.?”
They have marketing arms here. Still employing Pinoys.
Saka may i refer you to members of the Semiconductor Industry of the Philippines, Chamber of Automobile Manufacturers of the Philippines, locators in many economic zones nationwide. Also Texas Instruments. Motorola. GE Medical Instruments. Ayala’s IMI. Intel.
Patay na ang manufacturing dito? Oh please.
“may pasulong bang economy na di umunlad?”
“Tapos lakas ng loob mong bumanat ng economic gains”
tsk tsk tsk tsk. four words – wala kasi kayo dito.
Di nyo ma-witness first hand ang surge of economic activity dito. Ayaw nyong i-acknowledge ang mga changes, dahil nabulag na kayo sa pagkamuhi kay gloria.
nabanggit mo yung call centers. ilan ang nagta-trabaho dyan? ilang thousand unemployed ang nabawasan? yes marami pang unemployed, pero nababawasan (working dito). yung spending power nila, nag-uusad din ng ibang negosyo.
ako na ang magsasabi – long way to go pa, pero umuusad. kahit usad pagong, umuusad pa rin. maraming walang trabaho pa rin, pero marami na ring nagkaroon. nababawasan (by means of local employment). long way to go pa ang pagpapauwi ng lahat ng OFW dito.
mouthing the absence of a “trickle-down effect” is just rhetoric of presidential wannabees. pa-pogi points lang (para namang may magagawa silang miraculous) If you will insist on the absence of a trickle-down effect then you cannot say Vietnam has overtaken the Philippines because di pa rin nagtri-trickle down ang economic gains nila. And you should dismiss China and India as economic powers because over-all they are still full of poor people.
trickle-down effect takes time. you’re dreaming if you think it can be accomplished in a few years’ time.
growing poverty? asus, very subjecive. where did you get that? from opposition-sponsored SWS and Pulse Asia surveys? halatang di mo alam ang pag-conduct ng surveys. di yan disinterested, di gawa ng detached observer. always skewed towards the wishes of the sponsor yan. pinapatulan ng media yan dahil kelangang meron silang i-report.
“Mining industry, paper industry, steel industry wala…may nababalitaan ka bang gains kahit sa anong industries na mga ito?”
Mining, umuusad ito. Wala ka ngang nababalitaan dahil wala kayo dito. May potential ang mining to be a dollar earner much bigger than call centers. One consultant said that if call centers are sari-sari stores, mining companies are malls.
Paper industry is healthy here, though controlled by a few players. Wala ka ngang nababalitaan dahil wala kayo dito.
Steel industry? healthy din, pero there are efforts to privatize some players.
“Baka nga kahit kamote wala ng maipambili ang nakararaming tao dyan sa Pinas e…magtanim pa?”
Wala kayo kasi dito! Kaya di nyo alam na maraming puwedeng tumulong sa pagtanim ng kamote!